Articles tagged with "england"

A story in The Telegraph said Mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan would ‘effectively decriminalize’ weed. If only.

While the U.S. scrambles to crack down on vaping, Britain has embraced electronic cigarettes as a powerful tool to help smokers kick the habit.

Britain’s largest religious organization announced this week that it will lift a longstanding prohibition on medical cannabis in order to explore investing in the fast-growing industry.

As part of a nationwide protest, UK patients who grow their own medical cannabis are identifying themselves to authorities in an effort to force policy reform.

Patients may still have to wait awhile for access, but it appears medical cannabis is finally coming to the UK.

Medical cannabis formulations are coming to England on an emergency basis in the next two weeks. The UK government decided this week to immediately begin accepting medical cannabis license applications from physicians.

Shamed into action by the suffering of an epileptic child whose only relief came from cannabis oil, law enforcement and health authorities in the United Kingdom will begin an “unprecedented” review of the country’s cannabis policy.

“To my shame, my party … voted to sabotage this bill today,” MP Paul Flynn, who introduced a medical marijuana measure, told reporters.

Parliament on Friday will consider a bill to legalize medical cannabis. It’s the furthest the UK legalization movement has come in years, but it’s still a long shot.